When I was 13, I had my first kiss, got engaged twice, performed a wedding ceremony, telepathically communicated with crystal amulets, and sang songs to cast spells. It was a mystical era in Wehnimer’s Landing, the main town in a game called GemStone III.

Robert E. Murray, the former CEO and president of the now-bankrupt Murray Energy, has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Labor for black lung benefits. For years, Murray and his company fought against federal mine safety regulations aimed at…

Analog computing with neuron-like devices could efficiently solve problems traditional computers struggle with

Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will be quizzed by senators.

Last year, we released the experimental “Elements for VS Code” extension, giving developers the option of embedding the browser developer to

I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such…

Homepage of Michel Weststrate

Examining the system fonts of the Commodore PET, Apple ][, Atari 400/800, Acorn BBC Micro, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and MSX.

There’s been quite a bit of discussion in the news lately about whether to pause or resume college athletics during the pandemic. One of the sticking points has been uncertainty about how to monito…

There's a lot of old folk wisdom out there that justifies the use slow languages and runtimes on the basis that the impact on performance do...

Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux…

As expected, Apple has added the seventh-generation iPod nano to its list of Vintage and Obsolete products, officially designating the last iPod in...

Hacktoberfest
If you aren't familar, Hacktoberfest is an annual event that occurs every October. It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to Open Source repositories and as a reward you get a T-Shirt.
There's almo...

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

TIL this trick, [via Pascal Hirsch](https://twitter.com/phphys/status/1311727268398465029) on Twitter. Enter a line of Bash starting with a `#` comment, then run `!:q` on the next line to see what that would be with proper Bash escaping applied.

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